Vegan & Cruelty-Free

As an animal lover and vegan, it's very important to me to offer vegan and cruelty-free options to my clients while still using high-end products. A lot of salons advertise as "cruelty-free" or "organic" but after some research, I often found that the polishes they are using are NOT cruelty-free! I want to be 100% transparent with what kind of products I use. All of my polishes are VEGAN (If you’d like to learn more about what that means, please keep reading).

All of the products I use are verified cruelty-free in the United States. Some companies sell their products in China which requires all imported beauty products to be tested on animals. Below is a list of products I use and if they are Vegan/Cruelty-Free and Big-5 free:

VEGAN/100% CRUELTY-FREE:

• The Gel Bottle

• Light Elegance

• Apres Nail (Big-5 Free)

• Bio Seaweed Gel (Big-5 Free)

• Vetro

• Kiara Sky

• NCLA (7 Free)

• Luminary Nail System

• DND (Some exceptions I believe)

VEGAN/CRUELTY-FREE IN USA:

• Presto

• Kokoist

• Leaf Gel

• Young Nails

Feel free to ask me if you have any questions!

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

VEGAN:

The products do not use ANY animal-derived products. I know I know - there is no meat or milk used in polishes... But often, colors are achieved by using crushed beetles for a shimmery look, crushed ladybugs for a super bright red, fish scales to get a shiny glitter and shellac is also from an insect! I know we can have you leave the salon with bangin’ nails without hurting any animals in the process. I use high-end professional salon products that are vegan and cruelty-free.

CRUELTY FREE:

Trust me, animal testing is heartbreaking. You are one Google Image search away from finding out! Animal testing is a very outdated and inhumane way to test beauty products and is unnecessary! All of the products I use are Cruelty-Free in the US. Salons usually advertise their products as cruelty-free even though those companies have retailers in China.

BIG 5/BIG 10 FREE:

This means the product is free of all of these chemicals:

3-Free polish does not contain dibutyl phthalate, toluene or formaldehyde.

5-Free polish does not contain dibutyl phthalate, toluene, formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin or camphor.

7-Free polish does not contain dibutyl phthalate, toluene, formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin, camphor, parabens or xylene.

10-Free polish does not contain formaldehyde, toluene, DBP, camphor, formaldehyde resin, or xylene and doesn’t contain parabens, fragrances, phthalates, and animal ingredients.